17-letter words containing z, a
- pronominalization — to replace (a noun or noun phrase) with a pronoun.
- provincialization — to make provincial in character.
- recrystallization — to become crystallized again.
- rehospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- revascularization — the restoration of the blood circulation of an organ or area, achieved by unblocking obstructed or disrupted blood vessels or by surgically implanting replacements.
- reza shah pahlavi — Muhammad Riza (or Reza) [ri-zah] /rɪˈzɑ/ (Show IPA), 1919–80, shah of Iran 1941–79; in exile after 1979 (son of Riza Shah Pahlavi).
- riza shah pahlavi — Pahlavi (def 2).
- secondary glazing — insulation by means of a second pane of glass, or a sheet of plastic: a simple form of double glazing
- self-aggrandizing — increase of one's own power, wealth, etc., usually aggressively.
- spanish influenza — the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.
- spenserian stanza — the stanza used by Spenser in his Faerie Queene and employed since by other poets, consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and a final Alexandrine, with a rhyme scheme of ababbcbcc.
- theatricalization — to put into dramatic or theatrical form; dramatize.
- thomson's gazelle — a medium-sized antelope, Gazella thomsoni, abundant on the grassy steppes and dry bush of the East African plains.
- transcendentalize — to cause to become transcendent.
- unrealized losses — Unrealized losses are losses from the decrease in value of an asset that you still own.
- vernacularization — to translate into the natural speech peculiar to a people.
- vibrofluidization — Vibrofluidization is when vibration is used to make particles move in a fluidized bed.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- yuzhno-sakhalinsk — a city in the SE Russian Federation in Asia, on S Sakhalin Island.
- zebra swallowtail — a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio marcellus, having black and greenish-white stripes on the wings.
- zola technologies — (company) Producers of the Z simulation language.
- zonal pelargonium — a pelargonium whose leaves are marked with concentric circles of a different colour to the rest of the leaf
- zone of avoidance — the area of the sky in the plane of the Milky Way where interstellar dust obscures visible light so that no distant galaxies can be observed.
- zoogeographically — In a zoogeographical way.
- zoological garden — zoo (def 1).
- zygomatic process — any of several bony processes that articulate with the cheekbone.